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A flurry of executions has raised concern that the government is using judicially sanctioned killing to quell pockets of unrest around the nation.

Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani’s case in Manhattan could be important in a future trial of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, accused of planning 9/11.

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is drawing criticism for receiving Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in his first state visit to Brazil.

Gold climbed more than 1 percent on Monday as concerns about economic growth prompted investors to seek safer assets, but Asian stocks edged up, led by gains in Australia as resource stocks rose.

The Department of Homeland Security has had to stop deploying new detectors because the U.S. has run out of a crucial raw material, experts say.

In another blow to Pakistan’s president, authorities released the names of politicians who benefited from an amnesty decree that dismissed past alleged crimes.

More than a dozen current and former executives of the aerospace group EADS and its Airbus subsidiary will testify in a high-profile insider-trading inquiry.

Anxious about how little maneuvering room the weekend victory on health care provided, Democrats are stepping up overtures to two moderate Republican senators from Maine.

A primer on the military utility of some of the force options before President Obama to bolster the 68,000 American troops already in Afghanistan.

Officials disagree on whether governments should compensate people who were uprooted as children and sent overseas, where many were abused.

At least four miners were still missing early Monday, the official Xinhua news agency said.

A long-running conflict between the government and Muslim separatists on the island of Mindanao has made displacement a regular part of refugees’ lives.